# HTML Tag Stripper

Remove HTML tags and extract clean text content

> Canonical page: https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/html-tag-stripper

- **Category:** Text Processing

- **Keywords:** html, strip, remove, tags, clean, extract, text, sanitizer

## Overview

The HTML Tag Stripper is a precise utility designed to remove HTML markup from your content, leaving behind only clean, readable text. Whether you are processing web scrapes, cleaning up CMS exports, or preparing data for analysis, this tool ensures your text is free from unnecessary code and formatting artifacts.

## Inputs

- **HTML Input** (textarea): Enter HTML content to clean (can include tags, entities, etc.)...
- **Preserve Whitespace** (checkbox): Keep multiple spaces and formatting
- **Preserve Line Breaks** (checkbox): Keep paragraph and line break structure
- **Decode HTML Entities** (checkbox): Convert & < > etc. to their characters
- **Remove Script & Style Tags** (checkbox): Completely remove JavaScript and CSS content
- **Keep These Tags** (text): Tags to preserve (comma-separated tag names)

## When to use

- Extracting plain text from raw HTML source code for documentation or reports.
- Cleaning up messy web-scraped data before importing it into a database or spreadsheet.
- Sanitizing content by removing embedded script and style tags to ensure text-only output.

## How it works

- Paste your raw HTML code into the input area.
- Select your preferred formatting options, such as preserving line breaks or decoding HTML entities.
- Click the process button to instantly strip the tags and generate your clean text output.

## Use cases

- Converting web articles into plain text for offline reading or note-taking apps.
- Preparing scraped website data for natural language processing (NLP) tasks.
- Cleaning legacy CMS content exports to remove outdated inline styles and markup.

## Frequently asked questions

### Can I keep specific tags like paragraphs or line breaks?

Yes, you can use the 'Keep These Tags' field to specify which tags should remain in the output, and toggle the 'Preserve Line Breaks' option to maintain document structure.

### Does this tool remove JavaScript and CSS?

Yes, the 'Remove Script & Style Tags' option is enabled by default to ensure that all embedded scripts and styles are completely stripped from the final text.

### What happens to special characters like &?

If 'Decode HTML Entities' is enabled, the tool automatically converts these entities into their standard character equivalents (e.g., & becomes &).

### Is there a limit to how much HTML I can process?

The tool is designed to handle large blocks of text, but performance may vary depending on your browser's memory capacity for very large inputs.

### Does this tool store my data?

No, all processing is performed locally in your browser, ensuring your data remains private and secure.

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## Samples

- [HTML with Images Samples](https://elysiatools.com/en/samples/html-with-images): HTML source code samples with images for testing extraction
- [Docker Image Tag Samples](https://elysiatools.com/en/samples/docker-image-tag): Collection of Docker image references with various registries, repositories, tags, and digests
- [HTML Viewer Samples](https://elysiatools.com/en/samples/html-viewer-samples): Sample HTML files (semantic page, form, landing page) for the in-browser HTML Viewer
- [Number & Currency Samples](https://elysiatools.com/en/samples/number-currency-samples): Text containing various number and currency formats for testing currency extraction

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